I love books, I love the smell of a new book. I'll read anything. I'd read everything if I could. Haha. Right now I'm reading a book that I really bought for my husband, Inside Delta Force by Eric L. Haney. It's the book that was the inspiration for that show The Unit on CBS. I was reading a Nora Roberts book but somehow a bottle of leave-in conditioner opened and soaked through like half the pages. So that one has to dry out now.

Just wondering if anyone has read a good book lately. I'm always looking for suggestions on stuff to read.

I just finished The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood. I love her stuff. She always plays around with perceptions of the truth and her characters are very vivid. She also wrote The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace which were great as well. I'm also working my way through the Philippa Gregory canon. I just read Wideacre which was good but a bit disturbing. I'm on The Boleyn Inheritance right now and I'm enjoying it.

I just finished up Tallgrass by Sanda something. It's about the Japanese internment and it's told through the perspective of a 13 year old girl who lives next to the camp in rural CO. It was quite interesting

Dying to pick upThe Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. All of her stuff is awesome. Try Erik Larson. He wrote The Devil in the White City. Great book, based on historical events. I'm reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac right now. Trying to get into it. His stream of conciousness style of writing is hard to grasp onto.

- Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
- Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.

I love books too and I am always looking for something good to read. Right now, I am reading, "The Last Time I was Me" by Cathy Lamb. So far it is pretty good. She also wrote "Julia's Chocolates", which I liked allot.

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"Next on my list is a re-read of Sense and Sensibility. You can't beat a good Jane Austen book for a sunny day at the park!"

ITA! I love jane austen altough one book of her's I couldn't get into. Fell in love wit her when I read Pride and Prejudice finally found a copy of Presuasion love the book! Thanks KookyCurl for reminding me about Marget Atwood I think i'm going to read Alias Grace first already read HandMaid's Tale loved the book. Another great book is by Charlotte Bronte called Jane Ayer. I know so much about these books because I took a woman's literature class a couple of semsters ago loved it.

I just read On Beauty by Zadie Smith and Slaughterhouse Five--very different books, but both were good. I especially recommend On Beauty if you haven't read it. It was more popular a few years ago when it came out, but it is such a beautiful and loving portrayal of very human, broken characters. Warning--be careful where you read this. I was sitting in a coffee shop during my lunch break bawling my eyes out. Another favorite that I read a few years ago was Can't Quit You Baby by Ellen Douglas. I LOVED that book and highly recommend it to anyone.

I read How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of short stories by Julie Orringer. The six stories are really powerful and I re-read them a lot. I love the old books by Enid Blyton: Mallory Towers, The Secret Seven, The Famous Five, The Adventurous Four, and a series about a farm. They're hard to find, but fun to read. Kind of typical, and old and British, but so fun.